Kingston
DDR4 · 3200 MT/s · CL22 · 1×16GB
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Last updated Oct 12, 2026
Kingston ValueRAM DDR4-3200 1x16GB price history in US: current low $139.00, 12-month low $139.00, 12-month median $204.82.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg.
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Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg.
Single sticks, not matched kits — that's how Kingston sells ValueRAM for desktop upgrades. The two listings here are a lone module in two different capacities, rather than a pair meant to run across channels, aimed at simple capacity top-ups more than a dual-channel build from scratch.
This one is 1×16GB, 16GB, rated 3200 MT/s CL22. Buying one module means running single-channel unless it's paired with a second, ideally identical, stick — check whether the board and use case actually call for dual-channel before deciding a single 16GB module is enough.
This is UDIMM DDR4 for standard desktop boards, and like any DDR4 memory it needs the XMP profile selected in BIOS to run at its full 3200 MT/s rating rather than a slower default.
Vengeance LPX earns its long shelf life through breadth and a low-profile heatspreader, not through any single standout spec — the timing bin on the specific listing is what actually decides whether a given kit is a good buy.
DDR5 doubled the bandwidth and moved power regulation onto the module. Whether that is worth paying for depends entirely on which platform you are building.
A dying memory generation does not get cheaper on its way out — it gets more expensive, because the economics of end-of-life manufacturing are the opposite of the economics of a maturing one.
16 GB is no longer comfortable, 32 GB is the sensible default, and 64 GB is a workload decision rather than a future-proofing one.
A 2x16GB kit sits at the highest-volume point on the memory market, and volume is what actually sets price per gigabyte — not capacity, and not how new a kit's specification is.
CAMM2 and SODIMM are physically incompatible laptop memory formats. The difference is not speed at a given rating but how many channels each module carries, how the module attaches, and whether a machine can ever add memory rather than replace it.